Courses and Travel

Protected: America’s Finest Golf Course – the Pine Valley Golf Club

The Home Hole at the incomparable Pine Valley Golf Club.

Bob Fagan

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In Search of a Golf-Poker Parlay IV: Turning Stone

You can't roll your ball into the 18th at Kaluhyat.

Bob Cullen

I badly needed a turn in my luck, and the omens seemed favorable as I drove into upstate New York.... Read more »

In Search of a Golf-Poker Parlay II: Foxwoods

In the cold light of day, I had to admit I was a terrible poker player.

Bob Cullen

I headed north from Atlantic City, bloody but unbowed. The dream was still alive and still in front of me.... Read more »

The Slammer & Squire, Slighted

The voluptuous Slammer & Squire course makes the most of a very ordinary Florida site.

Derek Duncan

Slammer & Squire, the original course at World Golf Village, is overshadowed by the companion Palmer/Nicklaus collaboration, King & Bear, which... Read more »

How I Rate Golf Courses

Kinloch Club, in all its rate-able glory

Bob Cullen

Rating golf courses is an inherently subjective enterprise, much like rating restaurants and novels. I may like F. Scott Fitzgerald... Read more »

In Search of a Golf-Poker Parlay: Atlantic City

The bunkers at Sand Barrens are deep. So were the holes in my poker strategy.

Bob Cullen

Golf and poker, it seems to me, are among the world’s great complementary experiences, like vodka and caviar, or... Read more »

Protected: Rating the Golf Course Architects

Pete Dye, the Dean of the Living Golf Course Architects and the Most Influential Since 1965

Bob Fagan

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What’s Hot In Golf Travel Now?

James A. Frank

PerryGolf is one of the most experienced and trusted golf travel operators in the world, arranging and conducting trips to... Read more »

The Ten Best Courses You Can Play in New Zealand

Huge Cliffs Dwarf Magestic Cape Kidnappers

Bob Fagan

Bob Fagan played 40 New Zealand golf courses including the "Top 35" in order to bring the Best Ten to you.

My Kind of Summer Bargain

The 5-Star Phoenican resort is one of the best inthe Phoenix/Scottsdale area, and its 27-hole course is pretty good too. This summer it's also pretty cheap, at least if you like cocktails!

Larry Olmsted

Posting this to let my friends–in Arizona and far beyond–know about The “Round on Us,” program (get the double entendre?), a collaboration between Starwood... Read more »